Here Are the 2025 World Fantasy Awards Winners

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Here Are the 2025 World Fantasy Awards Winners

Congratulations to the winners!

By Molly Templeton

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Published on November 3, 2025

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This past weekend, the World Fantasy Convention took place in Brighton, United Kingdom. As part of the convention, the winners of the 2025 World Fantasy Awards were announced. Two of the finalists were selected by members of the current and two previous World Fantasy Conventions; the other three were selected by jurors James Brogden, Jessica Day George, Lee Murray, Jonathan Oliver, and Molly Tanzer. The jury selects the winners.

Congratulations to the winners!

Novel

• WINNER: The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey/Hodderscape)
• The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo (Henry Holt & Co./Quercus)
• The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister (Counterpoint Press/Titan Books)
• The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman (Viking/Del Rey)
• The Wings Upon Her Back by Samantha Mills (Tachyon Publications)

Novella

• WINNER: Yoke of Stars by R. B. Lemberg (Tachyon Publications)
• Crypt of the Moon Spider by Nathan Ballingrud (Tor Nightfire/Titan Books)
• In the Shadow of Their Dying by Michael F. Fletcher and Anna Smith Spark (Grimdark Magazine)
• The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo (Tordotcom)
• The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed (Tordotcom/Titan Books UK)

Short Fiction

• WINNER: “Raptor” by Maura McHugh (Heartwood: A Mythago Wood Anthology)
• “Our Best Selves” by Hiron Ennes (Weird Horror Magazine #9)
• “Godskin” by CL Hellisen (Strange Horizons, March 4, 2024)
• “The V*mpire,” by PH Lee (Reactor, October 2024)
• “Everything in the Garden is Lovely” by Hannah Yang (Apex Magazine #143, March 2024)

Anthology

• WINNER: Heartwood: A Mythago Wood Anthology, ed. Dan Coxon (Drugstore Indian Press)
• Discontinue If Death Ensues: Tales from the Tipping Point eds. Carol Gyzander & Anna Taborska (Flame Tree Press)
• Northern Nights ed. Michael Kelly (Undertow Publications)
• The Dagon Collection ed. Nate Pedersen (PS Publishing)
• The Crawling Moon: Queer Tales of Inescapable Dread ed. dave ring (Neon Hemlock Press)

Collection

• WINNER: A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enriquez, translated by Megan McDowell (Hogarth/Granta Books)
• Ghostroots by ’Pemi Aguda (Norton/Virago)
• Good Night, Sleep Tight by Brian Evenson (Coffee House Press)
• Kindling: Stories by Kathleen Jennings (Small Beer Press)
• Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil by Ananda Lima (Tor Books)

Artist

• WINNER: Liv Rainey-Smith
• Jenni Coutts
• Nico Delort
• Manzi Jackson
• Tran Nguyen

Special Award, Professional

• WINNER: Sydney Paige Guerrero, Gabriela Lee, and Anna Felicia Sanchez, for Mapping New Stars: A Sourcebook on Philippine Speculative Fiction (The University of the Philippines Press)
• Hildur Knútsdóttir and Mary Robinette Kowal, for The Night Guest audiobook (Tor Nightfire)
• David Thomas Moore, for editorial work with Solaris/Rebellion
• Sheree Renée Thomas, for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
• Jacob Weisman, for Tachyon Publications

Special Award, Non-Professional

• WINNER: Steve J Shaw, for Black Shuck Books
• Andy Duncan, for “It Is Always Time to Think about These Things” (Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, Vol. 35, Number 1)
• Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link, for Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet
• Michael Kelly, for Undertow Publications and Weird Horror magazine
• DeVaun Sanders, for FIYAH magazine
• Patrick Swenson, for Fairwood Press

Lifetime Achievement

• Juliet Marillier
• Michael Whelan

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